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February 16, 2007

February 16th

1531 – Death of Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer

1698 – Birth of Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician

1727 – Birth of Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist

1804 – Birth of Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist

1822 – Birth of Sir Francis Galton, English explorer. biologist, and eugenicist

1834 – Birth of Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist

1937 – Birth of Yuri Manin, Russian mathematician

1980 – Death of Erich Hückel, German physicist

2001 – Death of William Masters, American gynecologist and sexologist

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